Happy Foss-hmmmm-Crowley Day
11 October 2006 at 6:05 pm Nicolai Foss 4 comments
| Nicolai Foss |
We bloggers are a narcissistic bunch. My co-blogger has started a tradition of wishing our readers “Happy Hayek-Klein Day ” on his birthday, and obviously I wish to start a similar tradition. Unfortunately, no famous Austrian economists were born on October 12. The closest we can get is the granting of the Ph.D. to Murray Rothbard, but that was Oct. 11 (1956).
I am afraid the perhaps most famous person with an intellectual occupation born on 12 October is . . . the notorious Aleister Crowley (b. 1875), “The Great Beast 666,” “The Wickedest Man in the World,” a libertine rather than a libertarian — and the grandfather of George W. Bush (at least according to this blog).
How I will celebrate? Well, I have a nice 4-hours lecture on transaction cost economics to deliver. Such joy . . .
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Peter Klein | 11 October 2006 at 9:15 pm
At least you have great slides to copy from, e.g.
https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/great-online-langlois-slides-for-orgecon-course/
and those at
http://www.nicolaifoss.com/teaching/PhD_course.htm
especially
http://www.nicolaifoss.com/teaching/tce.ppt
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Lasse | 12 October 2006 at 3:14 am
My birthday is 23/11. I look forward to wishing people “Happy Billy-the-Kid/Lien” day.
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Teppo | 12 October 2006 at 12:01 pm
Happy b-day, Nicolai!
Felin-Kantorovich-Sombart (von Schmoller student) day seems better than Foss-Crowley…
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Bo | 13 October 2006 at 9:13 am
October is indeed a great month – my birthday (as if anyone cares) is on October 24 – incidently this is the UN day so I am widely celebrated already..